Third match of Champions Trophy Sa vs Afg: South Africa has the same only ICC Trophy, Afghanistan playing tournament for the first time

The third match of the Champions Trophy 2025 will be played between South Africa and Afghanistan today. Both teams are included in Group B. This is the first match of Group B.

South Africa won the first Champions Trophy title in 1998. The team defeated West Indies by 4 wickets. At the same time, Afghanistan has qualified for the tournament for the first time.

Match details, third match sa vs aFG date: 21 February Stadium: National Stadium, Karachi Time: Toss- 2:00 PM, Match Start- 2:30 PM

A tough competition between the two teams In this way, South Africa and Afghanistan will be face to face for the first time in the Champions Trophy. In the overall ODI, both teams have seen a tremendous competition. Till now 5 ODIs have been played between the two. Afghanistan, who took the tag of dark horses, won 2 and South Africa won 3 matches. The last time both teams collided in September last year. Then Afghanistan won 2–1 in the 3 ODI series.

Mulder is the top wicket of the team this year Afghanistan may bother players like Heinrich Klasson, Marco Janson and Keshav Maharaj. Classon has put a lot of classes of the bowlers of the front team with his dangerous batting for some time. Jansan is the X factor of the team. Maharaj has taken over the entire spin bowling for the team for some time.

This year, Matthew Breetzke has scored the highest 233 runs for the team. However, they are not in the squad. The second number is captain Temba Bavuma. He has scored 102 runs in 2 matches at a strike rate of 85.71. Wayan Mulder is at the top with 2 wickets in bowling.

Gurbaz team’s top scorer Afghanistan’s team has been successful for some time. Wicketkeeper batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz has contributed very important in this. Afghanistan’s mystery spin bowler Rashid Khan has become a big name in world cricket. This player has proved himself as a game changer. The Afghanistan cricket team also has a tremendous experienced player like Mohammad Nabi.

The team has not played a single ODI this year. Last year, the team’s top scorer was Gurbaz. At the same time, the top wicket was Taker Allah Ghaznafar, although he was out of the tournament due to injury. He took 21 wickets in 11 matches last year. Ajmatullah Omrajai is second with 17 wickets.

Pitch report The pitch of Karachi’s National Stadium is usually suited to batsmen. The seam movement for bowlers with the new ball will not be much, while batsmen will score runs taking advantage of pace and bounce. However, spinners may get some turn on the pitch of Karachi.

57 ODIs have been played here so far. The first batting team has won 27 matches and the first bowling team has won 28 matches. At the same time, the result of two matches could not be achieved. The highest score here is 355/4, which Pakistan made against South Africa this year.

Karachi season condition on Friday The weather of Karachi will be good on Friday. There will be sunlight in the morning and clouds in some places. Most of the clouds will be cloudy in the afternoon, but, there is no possibility of rain. The temperature is expected to be around 17 to 31 ° C. At the same time, the air will run at a speed of 11 kilometers per hour.

Possible playing-11 of both teams South Africa: Temba Bavuma (Captain), Ryan Ricelton, Rasi Van Dar Dasan, Aden Markram, Heinrich Klason, David Miller, Wayan Mulder, Marco Janson, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj and Tabrej Shamsi.

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shaheedi (Captain), Ibrahim Jadaran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmat Shah, Ajmatullah Omrajai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Naveed Jadaran, Noor Ahmed and Fazal-Haq Farooqui.